Liz Strong

Contact

elh2166@columbia.edu

About

Liz Strong is an oral historian, and Project Manager for the Obama Presidency Oral History. Prior to joining Incite in 2019, she spent two years as Project Coordinator for the Muslims in Brooklyn Public History Project at the Center for Brooklyn History (formerly Brooklyn Historical Society). From 2015 to 2019, Liz was the Oral History Program Manager for the New York Preservation Archive Project (NYPAP), where she led several oral history initiatives on the history of the preservation movement in New York City. She is co-chair of the Oral History Association’s (OHA) Advocacy Committee, and previously served on the OHA’s task force to author their 2018 Principles & Best Practices. As a freelance oral historian and personal historian, beginning in 2010, she worked with a variety of clients, including the Washington Department of Commerce in 2013, and the University of Arizona Steward Observatory in 2012. She received an MA in Oral History from the Columbia in 2015, and a BA in Narrative Arts from Oberlin College in 2009.

Selected publications

• Shifting Focus: Interviewers Share Advice on Protecting Themselves from Harm (Oral History Review, 8/31/2021)